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The tail sections of American B-36 bombers protruding from the wall of a building at the Convair plant in San Diego, California, 1950s.

B-57B Canberra aircraft flew near a 9.3-megaton thermonuclear explosion «Poplar». July 12, 1958.

«Pamlico» thermonuclear explosion, 3.88 Megatons, 4370 m burst height, Christmas Island, 6:37 a.m. July 11, 1962.

«Sunset» thermonuclear explosion, 1 Megaton, 1500 m burst height, Christmas Island, 7:33 a.m. July 10, 1962.

«Apache» thermonuclear test, 1.85 Megatons, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:06 a.m. July 9, 1956. This was a prototype of the XW-27 warhead intended for the Regulus missile.

July 8, 1962, at 11:00 p.m. the most powerful space nuclear explosion was carried out. Launched by a Thor missile, the 1.44 Mt W49 thermonuclear warhead was detonated at an altitude of 400 km above Johnston Atoll. The explosion caused an extremely powerful EMP and artificial aurora.

«Sedan» peaceful underground thermonuclear explosion, 104 kilotons, -194 m, Nevada Test Site, July 6, 1962. The explosion displaced 11 million tons of soil and created a crater 100 m deep and 390 m in diameter.

«Hood» thermonuclear test, 74 kilotons, air burst 460 m, Nevada Test Site, 4:40 a.m. July 5, 1957. It became the largest atmospheric nuclear test ever conducted in continental USA. 3000 soldiers and 39 helicopters participated in exercises.

French thermonuclear test «Licorne», 914 kilotons, 500 m burst height, Mururoa Atoll, 3 July 1970.

French nuclear test «Aldébaran» with a yield of 28 kt was conducted on a barge, at Mururoa Atoll - first test on this atoll. 2 July 1966.

«Able» nuclear test, 23 kilotons, air burst 158 m, Bikini Atoll lagoon, 9:00 a.m. July 1, 1946. Five ships were sunk, fourteen were judged to have serious damage.

«Oak» thermonuclear explosion, 8.9 Megatons, Eniwetok Atoll, 7:30 a.m. June 29, 1958.

«Bighorn» thermonuclear test, 7.65 Megatons, 3600 m burst height, Christmas Island, 6:19 a.m. June 27, 1962.

«Minor Scale» explosion utilized 4744 tons of ANFO to simulate 8-kiloton air-burst nuclear device. With a total energy release of 4.2 kilotons this test was reported as "the largest planned conventional explosion in the U.S. history". New Mexico. June 27, 1985.

«Dakota» thermonuclear test, 1.1 Megatons, Bikini Atoll, 6:06 a.m. June 26, 1956.

«Priscilla» nuclear test, 37 kilotons, 213 m burst height (balloon), Frenchman Flat in Nevada, 6:30 a.m. June 24, 1957. It was a weapons effects test sponsored by the DOD using a stockpiled device (Mk-15/39 primary) of known yield.

«Linden» nuclear test, 11 kilotons, Eniwetok atoll, 3:00 p.m. June 18, 1958.

June 17, 1967 China conducted its first full-scale test of a two-staged thermonuclear bomb. It was dropped from a Xian H-6 and was parachute-retarded for an airburst at 2960 m. The yield was 3.3 megatons.

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